Bands you NEVER thought you'd get a chance to see....but did

puma · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:13 pm

Iron_and_Beer Wrote:

I saw John Cale perform at Sunset Junction in LA, and he played "Venus in Furs." I definitely never thought I'd see a founding member of the Velvet Underground perform a VU song.

oh yeah, him too. that was awesome when he played that.

lou reed played satellite of love and all tomorrow's parties at atp, so that was well worth it.

i'll also add new york dolls, since i saw them at sunset junction. was never that into them, but it was amazing to see them play.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Ex Lion Tamer Wrote:

Wire, saw them on their first comeback...The Ideal Copy. Who'd have thought that a band no one ever heard of the fiorst time would re-form so the same no-one's could hear/see them again.

Yup, me too. Excellent shows right up through Bell Is A Cup/IBTABA.

Me:

Wreckless Eric
Television Personalities

Old Kentucky · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:12 pm

- Wesley Willis
- The Sugarhill Gang (reunion)
- Jane's Addiction (pre-breakup)

Aural Fixation · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:22 pm

I see a shitload of bands. The only bands that I've yet to see are the ones who have broken up or whose main members are dead.

d · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:24 pm

Bauhaus.

While I would have loved to have seen them in the 80s, it just wasn't meant to be, so I'll settle on the aging rock star reunion show I saw last month!

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Should I be embarrassed that I knew what many of you were going to post before you posted it. Why do I know so much about you people?!?!

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:50 pm

boobs Wrote:

wesley willis

shiv Wrote:

the frogs

Same bill at Rave Bar in MKE, Nov '97.

Unfortunately, Compound Red opened, and on the occasion the lead singer had eaten the wrong acid pre-show... It was horrible. (When they opened for Fugazi a year later, CR kicked, while Jets to Brazil was OPENLY DECENT (but only a four or a five (on a ten-points scale)) and Promise Ring blew goat-after-goat.)

Also:

Getting to see Motorhead in a small(ish) venue, headlining with a coupla street-punk and hardcore bands, May '99.

Iggy Pop at a modern-rock radio-station fest (alack!), May '97. He headlined.

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:15 pm

Pink Floyd
Bauhaus
Skinny Puppy

bluejayway · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:55 pm

Bauhaus, the warmup show they did for ATP last year.
Iggy, ATP the year before.
American Music Club, the year before that.

Sex, Drugs, and Dave · **Posted:** Mon Nov 14, 2005 10:13 pm

The Paper Airplane Pilots

HideousLump · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:57 am

In 1989, I had tickets for a series of 5 or 6 performance art and new music shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The one show in the series I was least interested in was some dance thingie which got canceled at the last minute and they got David Byrne on the Rei Momo tour to play instead, and I had a second row seat. Sweaty Abandon was my name that eve.

Nobody else will be impressed with this, but: In 2001, Jeff Lynne was releasing the first ELO album in 15 years (Zoom, and it's good, too) and had booked a big Summer tour. Before beginning the tour, they taped a concert DVD on a soundstage in Hollywood; I was working for the DVD label so I glommed tickets. A week or two after the taping, the whole tour was canceled because of low ticket sales (shouldn't have tried to play arenas, Jeffy), the album died, and nobody but me and a few hundred members of the ELO fan club got to see them live.

splates · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:02 am

Gonna see the Stooges come January

HideousLump · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:18 am

I was waiting for somebody to say Stooges.

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

Bauhaus
The Choir
Cause and Effect
The Mother Truckers

Buck_Wild · **Joined:** Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:28 am **Posts:** 232

On that Wire show the opening act played Pink Flag from start to finish. Then Wire was all 'Drill', stuff like that.

I guess this topic is basically about reformed legends. I"ll go with Pere Ubu , late 80s. I think it was before Cloudland came out.

Idiotjed · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:10 am

The Posies - October 2, 2005

One of the best show i've seen in my show going life.

Sketch · **Posted:** Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:13 am

The Pretenders

scottycash99 · **Joined:** Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:46 am **Posts:** 1149

Nakedprey Wrote:

Bauhaus
The Choir
Cause and Effect
The Mother Truckers

I saw Julie Miller open for The Choir more than a few years ago (during the 'Circle Slide' tour me thinks

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Buck_Wild Wrote:

On that Wire show the opening act played Pink Flag from start to finish.

That would be The Ex-Lion Tamers. Fantastic.

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